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You may have noticed that about two months went by between our last two posts and we’ve finished about 10 projects since then. Things are a little nutty around here! (What’s new, right????)

So we’re looking for someone to come on board as a part-time Project Coordinator. Below is the job posting and description. If you’d like to apply, please email your resume, cover letter and references to info@aasarts.com.

Help Wanted: Project Coordinator

Is your life dull? Do you long to live in a world of mystery, unpredictability and utter chaos? Then we have just the job for YOU! We are a very small design and marketing company looking for a Project Coordinator to work between 10-15 hours/week.

This is a very casual, low-key, flexible working environment but we exist within a fairly hectic and intense workload. In other words, a willingness to work hard is important but we never lose our sense of humor!

A marketing background isn’t necessary, but might be helpful. Common sense and a willingness to learn new things are much more valuable!

Excellent written communication skills are a must, as it’s a such a big part of the job. It’s especially important that your communication style is thoughtful, organized and clear.

High comfort level with computers, social media and the internet are definitely necessary. Knowledge of Mac, Adobe InDesign and WordPress are a plus.

It’s that time of year again! I’m drawing the chalk logo on the memory wall for the Heart Walk. These are photos from last year’s completed Tribute Wall, the starting point for 2016’s wall (including our dedication message) and the post-walk wall from this year too!

Scientists Accidentally Discover New Shade of Blue

Coca-cola, one of the classic brands of all time has gotten a complete overhaul. Looks like the new image is clean and refined and they went for overall consistency with small variations to indicate different products. I’m a huge fan of this approach!

Here are a couple of interesting posts about the recent changes to Google AdWords that will continue to evolve during the coming months… There will now be four ads at the top of most searches, instead of three. And there will be no ads on the right side of the search (which is no biggie because people have been visually blocking those out for a very long time). This will mean a decrease in the total number of available ad spots, which may increase the demand for those spots, and as a result potentially increase the cost. We’ll be keeping an eye on this to see how it continues to take shape.

We’ve just submitted a proposal for a new project and the process of creating it actually generated a couple of cool illustrations. Since only a few people will see the proposal, we thought it would be fun to post these two illustrations we whipped up for it.

PS: I love that the way they’re laid out in that image, they make a little face! I can’t see anything but the sweet smiley face now!

I’m not sure how this always seems to happen, but again we’ve had two sites go live in two days! And they’re two very different sites with one thing in common, they definitely have a bold color palette!

One is a temporary landing page for the reopening of Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville, Florida. We are also excited to be currently building the main site for Bo Diddley Plaza that will go live after they reopen! So stay tuned for that too.

The other is the new site for the University of Florida Division of Small Business and Vendor Diversity Relations. This is a real source of pride for us because of what this division can mean for businesses just like ours — small, women-owned businesses in a very male-dominated industry with a lot of big fish to compete with!

How fantastic is this image of Edythe Turnham and her Knights of Syncopation (c. 1925)?!?!?!

Turnham toured the Northwest with her band and played up and down the West Coast and on President Line Cruises, embodying travel routes that linked Washington musicians to the rest of the nation and the country. (Image courtesy of the University of Washington Library Digital Collections.)

Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them — and us.

In 1923, A. Quinn Jones became the inaugural principal of Lincoln High School in Gainesville, Florida (at the time offering grades one through eleven). With the belief that his graduates should receive full high school diplomas, “Prof” Jones, immediately began preparing the school for full accreditation from the State of Florida. In 1926, Lincoln High School became only the second African-American high school in the state of Florida to qualify for this distinction. Accredited diplomas gave graduates the credentials they needed for full acceptance at colleges and universities. The A. Quinn Jones Museum project is intended to honor this visionary educator and the unique community that he helped build.

This website can best be summarized by the phrase “Simplicity isn’t simple.” This site has lots of hidden elements and programming that bring together a very simple look that’s still editable by the client. The result is a slick, streamlined, elegant portfolio that features the photographer’s work without clutter or distractions.

A series of websites created for writers By Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels to promote their book Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East in several different languages. Pictured is the Chinese language version.

A series of websites created for writers By Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels to promote their book Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East in several different languages.

A series of websites created for writers By Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels to promote their book Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century: A Middle Way between West and East in several different languages.

“I am moving forward with my music, universal language, expressing things of value. And if there’s some people want to listen, they’re welcome. I’m just like the birds. They sing. Those who like can listen and those who don’t, don’t have to.” — Sun Ra

Some of you may have heard stories in the news lately about the HeartBleed “Virus” attacking some very high-profile websites. It was definitely a big deal and it was a very surprising issue for the tech world because it went after a specific, very widely used method of securing websites that had, up until this point, been viewed as very secure.

Most security authorities have advised that people change passwords on their more sensitive logins, which we would recommend as well. A note to WordPress users, although WordPress doesn’t typically use the style of security (called “SSL”) that was affected by HeartBleed, WordPress has updated their files for further protection, so it’s a good idea to update to the most recent version of WordPress as well.

Please continue to be careful about where you login to your site and as always protect your passwords!

As if we needed another reason not to use Internet Explorer, there is currently a security vulnerability in all versions of Internet Explorer (or “IE”) targeting financial institutions and defense companies/contractors. Computer users still using Windows XP are particularly vulnerable. It’s believed these attacks are an information gathering effort. Microsoft will most likely be providing a program update to fix the problem soon. But in the mean time, we would suggest you use an alternative web browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.

For those of you who aren’t computer savvy, if you have Windows this program is probably what you think of as “The Internet.” It’s a big lowercase E with a gold circle around it.

As a helpful guideline, the University of Florida Information Security Office has issued the following recommendation: Avoid financial and defense (military) related Web sites until Microsoft releases a patch – only go to these types of Web sites if it is absolutely necessary and do not use Internet Explorer until a patch is released. And users are advised to avoid using Internet Explorer when possible until a patch is made available. Users should consider using an alternate web browser such as FireFox, Safari, or Chrome when use of Internet Explorer is not required.

This is a great blog post written by Angel Pachkowski of Photography 35 (one of our clients), with some things to keep in mind when posting photos online. http://www.photography35.com/facebook-creates-insta-problem/

UF Health (previously UF&Shands) featuring their revolutionary hybrid approach to cardiac care. Interventional cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons are collaborating to perform new minimally invasive procedures, and saving the lives of many who might not survive under traditional care. The maze imagery evolved from the description of one newer minimally invasive procedure in which a catheter is navigated through the body to the heart where treatment is administered directly to diseased area.

The description from YouTube says it all. “This is my favorite 4min selection of a larger work by Ralph Steiner. The original was silent, and the DVD had it set to classical music. I have swapped the audio for an electronica/industrial track by 3 Liquid Hz – Little Boy.”

By now, you can probably tell that we’re a little geeky here. So here’s your geek moment for the day:

This is a video taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory of the Sun’s 4-hour solar eruption on December 31, 2012. The video shows a bright plume of magnetic plasma erupting from the surface of the Sun.

They’ve been a long time in the making, but we’ve just launched two websites in the past three days! A new website for a dental prosthetic manufacturing group. And a new and improved version of the Warring Homes website!